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Donald Trump isn’t called by God.

So if you search around much on the internet, you’ll stumble across a growing movement of Christians saying that Donald Trump is called by God to strike fear into the heart of America’s enemies. I think this is something to prayerfully consider, testing it against the word of God. Anyone who knows me personally won’t be surprised, though, that I find it deeply troubling.

1 John 4:1 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

I won’t link to these blogs- if you’re curious, feel free to Google. I don’t want to lend further notoriety or money to a movement which I do not trust. But I do want to discuss why I feel that the Bible provides sufficient evidence that anyone claiming Trump was anointed by God is a false prophet.

Matthew 7:15-20 “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.

What fruit has Donald Trump’s tree borne? Divisiveness, fraud, corruption, a kingdom built on taking advantage of the poor, skirting the system, idolatry and bigotry. How could such a person be called by God? To claim such a thing is true shows a spirit either blinded to the knowledge of Trump’s true character, or a spirit which (I think this is far more likely) is taking advantage of the trusting nature of Christians and the language which codes belonging to them in order to further the agenda of a very dangerous man.

Trump’s kingdom is built on idolatry. Trump covers all of his properties and businesses in his name and his own likeness, often plating them in gold and only the finest of materials in order to further the idea that his name, not God’s name, is synonymous with prosperity. His kingdom is a temple to his self, not the principles of the Bible.

Trump’s kingdom is built on principles of taking advantage of other people, the political and legal system of the United States. Trump’s real estate empire owes it’s success, in part, to his ability to buy up properties that were lost in bankruptcies, raze them to the ground, and build ostentatious new properties in their place. Often this has been accompanied by complaints from impoverished communities that have been literally over-towered by Trump: as commercial properties encroach on poor neighborhoods, people are forced out of their homes. This is further compounded by the fact that Trump has taken advantage of bankruptcy laws in order to force government subsidizing of his own financial risk taking- he has LOST an incredible amount of money trying to game the system, and he’s passed those losses on. Furthermore, he has padded his ability to do both of this things, skirting zoning laws, having cities pay for the right to have towers bearing his name, etc, by shamelessly buying politicians. In what could not be a greater bit of irony, when Hillary Clinton was the Senator for New York, Trump often gave money to her own causes and invited her to bless his.

Trump’s kingdom is built on bigotry. Trump has called for the wholesale slaughter of Muslim women and children so that terrorists will stop, as if killing their women and children wouldn’t be MORE of a reason to hate the United States. He has accused all undocumented immigrants of being drug-dealers and rapists. He has called for large-scale deportations of the like that the United States has never seen, which would leave children born in the United States without parents and would tear families apart- but even worse (if you are a capitalist, like Trump) it would cripple American industry and leave thousands of fields empty of hands to pick food, slaughterhouses empty of workers, and factories bare of the people needed to pack and ship. Perhaps because I am a woman, though, the type of bigotry I find the most disturbing from Trump is his open contempt for the opposite gender. He calls breastfeeding mothers “cows,” he tells women they’d “make a pretty picture on their knees” and his favorite insult for any woman, be her the nominee of a party or the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, is that she isn’t pretty and his women are “prettier,” as if a woman’s worth starts and ends with her physical characteristics. This contempt for the fairer gender, contempt for women who were made by and loved by God, based off of nothing but a callous assessment of their potential as sexual objects, is abhorrent. No man of God condemns a woman for not being a valuable enough sexual conquest. Let’s not forget that a good portion of Trump’s wealth comes from the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants, a gleaming temple to the idolatry of beauty as the sum of a woman’s worth.

Trump’s kingdom is built on divisiveness. From the petty divisiveness of pitting Apprentice against Apprentice to the large-scale divisiveness of pitting Republican against Republican, Mexican against Caucasian, Muslim against Christian, Gay against Straight, Pro-Choice against Pro-Life, and on down the line, Trump has built his world on pitting people against each other. His campaign includes almost no (if not literally no) actual agenda. Other than banning Muslims from entering the country, building a wall between here and Mexico, and ending our trade deficit with China, he has said nothing of any real substance. How would he HELP people? How would he grow the economy? How would he improve foreign policy? His answer to that is that we can’t trust Mexicans, Muslims, or the Chinese. Divisiveness, pure and simple, not solutions.

Trump’s kingdom does not value truth. There is almost too much to write here- but suffice it to say that Trump’s world is riddled with inconsistencies like a tree trunk laced with termite trails, to the point where stunned onlookers often wonder how much longer it can stand. His stance on abortion, gay marriage, trade, his own wealth and business acumen, and so much more have changed with the winds so many times it’s impossible to keep track of what he has believed when. He has been accused of fraud and is losing that case, he has often conserved his wealth by refusing to pay contractors and then suing them when they file for payment, he has often protected his own assets in shady legal maneuvers to allow companies to die and go bankrupt without putting his personal wealth on the line- often to the grave expense of his employees. Some people will argue back against this accusation, saying that what Trump does is “good business,” but where in the Bible does it say that we can manage our worldly goods in a way that contradicts Biblical Principles and then still claim to act for God? If Trump is a man of God, should not the fruits of his business be a testament to God’s goodness, instead of a testament to avarice and fraud?

So no, I do not nor will I ever believe that Trump was called by God. All the evidence of Trump’s works on Earth can be seen in the faces of my students, when they write poems describing how much he scares them, when they beg the adults in their vicinity to vote against him, and when I literally hear them praying for Trump to fail.

Unless the “enemy” Trump has been called on to strike fear into is American women and children, he has not nor could he ever have been called by God.

4 thoughts on “Donald Trump isn’t called by God.”

Where’s the evidence that anyone is saying the Democratic, Green or Libertarian nominees are “called by God”? The issue Lindsey is referring to here is the airtight (in some circles) claim that the Republican nominee is called by God. What I mean by “airtight” is that once you’ve “discerned” which candidate is “called” you have no choice in the matter. You have to vote that way. (If you believe! To prove you believe!)

Hello – you are right on with your post! You are the few and rare christian posts who boldly stated and sees the revelation that Trump will NOT be president. I’m originally from Canada and not aligned with any political party in the United States but I can see the all the U.S. Christian prophets & evangelist jumping blindly on the bang wagon with famous TV pastors who support the republican party because of tradition believing that pro-life is the ‘only’ issue in the world that God is interested in and the sexist belief that God wouldn’t use a ‘woman’ to lead the Country. I heard a number of famous TV pastors boldly speak evil words against Hilary Clinton and refuse to pray for her or pray against her. In addition, a lot of the prophecies written or posted in videos are copycats of each other – some even using the exact same ‘wording’ describing their so called dreams and visions of Trump becoming President. Many prophecies are now spinning their words in the last 2-3 weeks prior to the election to say that the media is against Trump and that it is the attack from Satan to deceive the people to believe that Trump is not going win but that God will still put Trump in power. I’ve read numerous prophecy stating Trump is 70 years old, this is the year of 70 Jubilee and Trump is the Man that God is using to bring change, ect. Mixing numerology and false spiritual messages to deceive the masses about what God is doing and saying for the election. There are also a number of prophecies where the evangelist are not saying boldly who the president will be but they will write criptic messages implying that Trump will be President – if you can read between the lines. There are very few prophets that have boldly prophecied Hillary Clinton and they are all getting shut down and/or critized by a number of Christian circles.

The spreading of prophetic words about Trump becoming President are all Lies and it is a Spirit of deception that has been released on the false prophets to expose them and bring change to the Body of Christ.

In this season. God will expose all the false prophets and their followers. Trump is a decoy – and God is doing bigger things than the personal bias’ opinions and tradition of voting republican. Trump has indeed shaken up America to show us that there is still a large segment of the population who are still racist, sexist, hateful, and ready to start a war at any cost even if it will divide the country. God will use the First Woman President of the United States to fulfil the purpose of the Lord for the next 4 years. Thank you for your post and the revelation that God has shown you!

Is this a satirical reply? The author of the original blog here did not claim to have any “revelation” about who would be elected (though there is some pretty obvious evidence from the polls). You’re using the same sort of language to discuss Clinton, and I’m not sure whether to find it humorous or odd…